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Ruth Njoroge, Abigael N. Otinga, John R. Okalebo, Mary Pepela and Roel Merckx
Deficiencies of secondary and micronutrients (SMNs) are major causes of low maize yields in poorly responsive soils. This phenomenon minimizes the agronomic efficiency of N, P and K fertilizers and consequently result in a dwindling economic benefit asso...
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Luís Fernando Santos de Lima,Leonardo Cesar Ferreira,Renata Fuganti-Pagliarini,Silvana Regina Rockenbach Marin,Maria Cristina Neves de Oliveira,Liliane Marcia Mertz-Henning,José Renato Bouças Farias,Norman Neumaier,Kazuo Nakashima,Liliane Moreira Nunes,Alexandre Lima Nepomuceno
Due to the importance of the soybean complex on the world economy, there is concern about the significant losses of the full production potential due to abiotic stresses, so that drought is the main challenge for production. Genetic engineering allows in...
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Atif Kamran, Munazza Ghazanfar, Jan Sher Khan, Sana Pervaiz, Manzer H. Siddiqui and Saud Alamri
Agronomic biofortification could possibly be a promising strategy to overcome zinc (Zn) deficiency in wheat; however, the cultivar?s response to foliar applications is enigmatic when it comes to the relative efficiency of Zn absorption and accumulation. ...
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Siqing Deng, Yueying Wu, Qingping Zeng, Aoni Zhang, Meijuan Duan and Min Deng
Heavy metal (HM) contamination poses a serious threat to safe crop production and human health, and different maize inbred lines respond differently to cadmium (Cd) stress. However, the morphological and physiological characteristics of maize inbred line...
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Xinyu Chen, Mingdong Chen, Mengmeng Liu, Yang Li, Deqiu Yang and Haihua Wu
To address the problem of poor ridging effect, a sweet potato ridging and shaping machine was designed and its overall structure and working principles were described. The design parameters of rotary tillage device, furrowing and shaping device and press...
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Dejene Kebede, Isaac Onziga Dramadri, Patrick Rubaihayo, Thomas Odong and Richard Edema
Ergot is an important disease affecting sorghum when susceptible cultivars are grown and environmental conditions are favorable. Resistance breeding to ergot is, therefore, of paramount importance to provide effective, sustainable, and environmentally fr...
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Hannah Wittman,Dana James,Zia Mehrabi
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Agroecology, as a science, practice, and social movement, has been posed as a potential pathway to revitalize global food systems through a shift towards social and ecological justice. Complex and diversified agroecological systems vary wi...
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Dámaris Núñez-Gómez, Pilar Legua, Vicente Lidón, Agustín Conesa, Juan José Martínez-Nicolás and Pablo Melgarejo
With a progressively decreasing availability of water for irrigation, the utilization of lower agronomic quality water sources is becoming more prevalent. Compounds such as sodium and boron, due to their impact on crop development and production, are gai...
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Juan Carlos Suárez, Amara T. Contreras, Milan O. Urban, Miguel A. Grajales, Stephen E. Beebe and Idupulapati M. Rao
One of the strategies to combat micronutrient malnutrition is by developing biofortified common bean lines (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) capable of tolerating different stress conditions. In this study, the adaptive responses of different biofortified bean lin...
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Ana Vukovic Popovic, Ivna ?tolfa Camagajevac, Rosemary Vukovic, Magdalena Matic, Dharmendra K. Gupta and Zdenko Loncaric
Selenium (Se) deficiency in human and animal nutrition is primarily due to low levels of Se in soils. It can be prevented by enriching crops, such as wheat, with Se through agronomic biofortification. Although Se is not essential for plants, it shows a d...
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Ran Darzi, Oz Kira, Avi Shaviv and Yael Dubowski
The vast consumption of nitrogen-based fertilizers is a significant source of environmental pollutants in all phases. While enhanced-efficiency nitrogen fertilizers (EENFs) improve N-use efficiency and reduce environmental impact, their performance depen...
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Qianqian Xia, Wenyi Zhang, Bing Qi and Yunxia Wang
In order to meet the sowing demand of the hybrid rice plug seedling, a horizontal rotary precision seed metering device was proposed. The key structure parameters were designed, the kinematics analysis of the seed-filling process was carried out, and the...
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Malgorzata Szczepanek, Rafal Nowak and Karolina Blaszczyk
Black-seeded barley can be a valuable raw material for functional food. However, its restoration to cropping should be preceded by the identification of the characteristics determining productivity. The field study was conducted to identify specific para...
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Shenghao Ye, Xinyu Xue, Shuning Si, Yang Xu, Feixiang Le, Longfei Cui and Yongkui Jin
Although there are existing interplant weed control devices for soybeans, they mostly rely on image recognition and intelligent navigation platforms. Simultaneously, automated weed control devices are not yet fully mature, resulting in issues such as hig...
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Sylwia Lewandowska, Krzysztof Marczewski, Marcin Kozak, Naoko Ohkama-Ohtsu, Magdalena Labowska, Jerzy Detyna and Izabela Michalak
The objective of this study was to investigate the response of Japanese and Polish soybean varieties to algal extract in terms of yield and other agronomic traits. A field experiment was conducted in 2019 at Pawlowice Experimental Station near Wroclaw ci...
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Bo Lu, Xiangdong Ni, Shufeng Li, Kezhi Li and Qingzheng Qi
According to the agronomic requirements of cotton precision seeding, the researchers designed a split seeding system to achieve high-speed precision seeding on the membrane. The 3D models used in the simulation process were created using Solidworks. They...
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Dejiang Liu, Yan Gong, Xuejun Zhang, Qingxu Yu, Xiao Zhang, Xiao Chen and Yemeng Wang
Codonopsis pilosula is cultivated mainly in sandy soils, especially in the Dingxi area of the Gansu province, northwest China. They are mainly planted in hilly areas, where large machines cannot reach easily. Codonopsis pilosula transplanting has been ad...
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Lan Jiang, Qing Tang, Jun Wu, Wenyi Yu, Min Zhang, Dong Jiang and Dexin Wei
In order to satisfy the soil preparation requirements of a rapeseed combined transplanter in the middle-lower Yangtze River region in China where rice?rapeseed rotation cropping system was performed, a seedbed preparation machine composed of a rotary til...
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Fazli Hameed, Junzeng Xu, Shah Fahad Rahim, Qi Wei, Anis ur Rehman Khalil and Qi Liao
Major challenge in rice production is to achieve the goal of enhancing both food production and fertilizer use efficiency. Rice growth simulation model, ORYZA (v3) was used in the present study to evaluate the model under continuous flooded (CF) and alte...
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Mthokozisi K. Zuma, Unathi Kolanisi and Albert T. Modi
Biofortification interventions have the potential to combat malnutrition. This review explored the use of provitamin A-biofortified maize (PVABM) as a vitamin A deficiency (VAD) reduction agricultural-based strategy. Maize has been identified as one of t...
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